The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Bipin Chander Negi, Judge
Whether approved for reporting?1
For the Appellants : Mr. Shrawan Dogra, Senior Advocate with
Mr. Tejassvi Dogra, Advocate, for the State.
G.S. Sandhawalia, Chief Justice (Oral)
The present appeal filed by the State against the judgment
of learned Single Judge, passed in Civil Writ Petition No.6757 of
2022 titled Virender Kumar vs. The State of Himachal Pradesh and
another, decided on 21.11.2024, is hopelessly time barred by 01 year
and 142 days.
2. Learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of the State
has tried to convince us that the merits of the case should be examined
since the observations of the learned Single Judge, as such, would go
against the policy and would amount to giving a concession as such,
Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment?
which is beyond the terms of the policy. On this account, he tried to
persuade us while falling back on the judgment of the Hon’ble Apex
Court, in State of Nagaland vs. Lipok AO and Others, (2005) 3 SCC
752, which had further been relied upon in O.P. Kathpalia vs. Lakhmir
Singh (dead) and others, (1984) 4 SCC 66, a 3 Judges Bench,
wherein it has been held that if the delay results in grave miscarriage of
justice, it would be a ground to condone the delay.
